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SPOTLIGHT:
JARMILA KAVENA
by Ilania Abileah
Photo: Courtesy of Jarmila Kavena. (SEE DRIVE C: NEWSLETTER MAY 2005)
Caption: Jarmila Kavena's Installation exhibit entitled "The Foundry:
Sequences".
This month's spotlight is on a Canadian artist, Jarmila Kavena, an
installation artist represented by Engine Gallery of Toronto, Canada (www.enginegallery.ca).
Jarmila obtained her MFA from Concordia University, Montreal, in 2001,
and her last two shows both entitled "The Foundry: Sequences" were in
October 2004 and January, 2005, at the Maison de la culture Plateau
Montreal, and the Gesu Creative Art Centre in Montreal, Canada.
These two shows presented Jarmila's unique works depicting the theme of
the life struggle an individual human goes through, using the Foundry as
a metaphor. There were sculptures of circular and spiral shapes, using
metal, wood, pigment and encaustic glazes, all carefully laid out to
allow good viewing of each part of the installation. Particular
attention was given to the way each section of the installation was lit.
Kavena's work was a metaphor of human life experience. In a foundry,
metal goes through many stages of transformation, akin to the human
personality which forms through struggle. Kavena's three four-plate
installations, 70" each, suggested the state of confusion, lack of
communication and the old-age fool, who does not care anymore whether he
fits the social mould or not. Understanding that all of an individual's
hardships experienced in life can be related to what raw material goes
through during the manufacturing process in a foundry (melting, moulding,
grinding, cutting, filing down and polishing), Jarmila used this
knowledge to metaphorically express the struggles of human experience.
The artist used molten metal poured onto sand casts to create
three-dimensional forms, circular metal encasing formed around
paintings, and round metal pieces. In addition, she used classic style
drawings, transparent layers of encaustic and pigments, engravings using
printing techniques, and printing ink painted on metal encasements.
Jarmila Kavena's metal sculptures travel to Inspire Fine Art Gallery in
Chicago this June 8 to July 17. In a Press Release related to this
Chicago show, Deborah Carruthers wrote: "The work...explores the way in
which science seeks to translate the unknown into the familiar....
Kavena's metal sculptures reflect her enchantment with the foundry: by
the human history within it and by the practical use of mathematics,
physics and chemistry there. This show incites a curiosity in the viewer
as to the relationship of our biology to questions such as: Who are we?
What are we? How did we get this way?"
(Ilania Abileah is an artist and a freelance art writer residing in
Quebec, Canada. We welcome Ilania as our Canadian Foreign Correspondent
who will provide readers to this Newsletter news on the Canadian gallery
scene. Visit her website here:
http://www.IlaniaAbileah.com).
This is the photo that Jarmila Kavena
provided however it was cropped for the article by the publisher.
Jarmila Kavena :
Installation 'De la fonderie' Sculpture/peinture
EXPOSITION:
du
12 février au 26 mars 2006.
Galerie d'Art du Parc,
864 rue des Ursulines, Trois- Rivières.
Tél. : 819 374 2355.
Opening/Vernissage
dimanche/Sunday, le 12 février, 14h à 17h.
Mardi au vendredi/Tuesday to Friday: 10 -12 and 13.30 - 17
Samdi & dimanche/Saturday and Sunday: 13 - 17
www.galeriedartduparc.qc.ca
Colours
and dimensions artwork may be slightly different from the original.
